A Biography Of Abdullah Yusuf Ali

by K.K. Aziz

A Biography Of Abdullah Yusuf Ali by K. K. Aziz

Hardcover

First published May 10, 2010

About the author

Khursheed Kamal Aziz, better known as K. K. Aziz was born in December 1927, in village Ballamabad near Faisalabad. He was educated at the M. B. High School Batala, Forman Christian College and the Government College, Lahore, and the Victoria University of Manchester. He has been on the academic staff of the Government College, Lahore, and of the Universities of the Punjab, London, Cambridge, Khartoum and Heidelberg, and has delivered occasional lectures at the Universities of Karachi, Peshawar, Dacca, Islamabad, Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Geneva, Oxford and Bergen.

During intervals snatched from teaching abroad he has served at home as Deputy Official Historian to the Government of Pakistan, Chairman of the National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, and Special Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister (Z. A. Bhutto). Author of over a dozen books, he is a historian of rank with an international reputation.

Reviews

[Azhar Farooq · Rating 4 out of 5]

First few chapters are very interesting. It's a very informative book but in a data style without any touch of making it interesting. A lot information which is repeated in other books by K.K. Aziz.